Lily Goddard (1916 – 2002) was an Austrian textile designer. She attended the
Vienna School of Art where she was taught by, among others, Professor
Ernst Gombrich
Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (; ; 30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who, after settling in England in 1936, became a naturalised British citizen in 1947 and spent most of his working life in the United Kin ...
, Professor Joseph Hoffmann and Professor Czisek.
[Coalhole Rubbings, Lily Goddard]
She joined the
Chartered Society of Designers
The Chartered Society of Designers (CSD) is a professional body for designers. It is the only Royal Chartered body of experienced designers. Its membership is multi-disciplinary – representing designers in all design, disciplines including I ...
(then the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers) in 1950, being very active in the 1960s and 1970s in the Fashion and Textiles Group. She specialised in printed textiles, paper products and carpets and her clients included Liberty textiles, Deeko paperware, Crossley carpets and Sanderson wallpapers. Several examples are available online at VADS - the online resource for visual arts (link below),
Goddard was granted Fellowship of the CSD in 1976. Part of her huge collection of designs, manufactured samples and her cuttings books are housed in the
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...
, London (see link below). She was made a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts in 1978.
She taught art at primary, secondary and further education levels and lectured extensively in England and Ireland. She wrote and published four books, one on
coal hole
A coal hole is a hatch in the pavement (sidewalk, in US usage) above an underground coal bunker. They are sometimes found outside houses that existed during the period when coal was widely used for domestic heating from the early 19th century t ...
covers and other
street furniture
Street furniture is a collective term for objects and pieces of equipment installed along streets and roads for various purposes. It includes benches, traffic barriers, bollards, post boxes, phone boxes, streetlamps, traffic lights, traf ...
and three volumes of poetry.
She married Sidney in 1950 who died in 1976. She died in March 2002 leaving a son, Larry and a granddaughter, Stephanie.
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References
External links
* https://www.vads.ac.uk/digital/search/searchterm/lily%20goddard
* https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?q=lily%20goddard
* https://web.archive.org/web/20090117152202/http://www.dca.gov.uk/pubs/reports/prefpoem.pdf
* http://www.glias.org.uk/news/201news.html
* http://www.glassian.org/biblio.html
* https://web.archive.org/web/20070927104002/http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/cot/BOOKS014977I.shtml
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Textile designers
Chartered designers
1916 births
2002 deaths